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The structures of a number of neutral high-spin, triangular carbon and silicon systems were studied and their stabilities were predicted using the density functional theory methods (B3LYP functional with the 6-311++G** and 6-311+G** basis sets). The calculated spin-spin coupling constants have high positive values, thus indicating strong ferromagnetic interactions in the title systems.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, 1493–1500, August, 2011.
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Gapurenko, O.A., Starikov, A.G., Minyaev, R.M. et al. Carbon and silicon triangulenes: searching for molecular magnets. Russ Chem Bull 60, 1517–1524 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-011-0226-4
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